President Abraham Lincoln liked to make Proclamations, everything from Emancipation, freeing the slaves in rebellious States, establishing new States, suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus to …
Missouri Press Association’s past presidents, along with their spouses and significant others, met Thursday, Nov. 6, in Lake Ozark for the annual Past Presidents Dinner.
This year’s …
Education has always been a basic function of newspapers, from the use of printed publications to circulate public notices to journalism’s more general function of informing audiences about …
As we head toward the Thanksgiving holiday, we are often encouraged to share things for which we are truly ‘‘thankful.” Family, friends, good health (and the like) are things that first come to mind.
Whew! It’s been a bit of a whirlwind in my life for the past month or so with so many conventions and conferences to attend.
Don’t get me wrong. I love going to the Missouri Press …
All week long — National Newspaper Week — we have been examining the important role newspapers play in their communities and the many ways those communities become malnourished when their …
Who owns the newspapers? In September, Better Newspapers, Inc., sold us and their other seven Missouri papers to Paxton Media Group (PMG). We are in the process of learning a whole new system, which …
When Chad Stebbins was announced as the next executive director of Missouri Press Association, one of his goals was to make personal visits to member newspapers around the state.
Since …
The Missouri Press Association has received an Active Specialty Publication Membership application for Missouri Life magazine.
Missouri Life is a non-partisan magazine with a statewide …
Kathleen “Kathy” Ann (Carver) Krier, 79, of Warsaw died peacefully on Nov. 11, 2025, surrounded by her family, due to complications from vascular dementia following a fall in August 2025.
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John M Wylie II, 72, of Oologah, Okla., formerly of Kansas City, died October 4, 2025, at his home on Lake Oologah.
A decorated and accomplished journalist and publisher who grew up in Kansas …
Russell D. Pettijohn, of St. Joseph, died Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, at the age of 96.
He proudly served his country in the Missouri Air National Guard and the U.S. Air Force, where he attained the …
Has journalism become a dirty word?
In my family, no.
My father was a journalist, my uncle, my brother and a cousin.
Sometimes noble, always needed, the talk around our family dinner …
For decades, students in the Missouri School of Journalism have received a firsthand look at weekly newspapering through the Community Journalism course.
First offered by MPA Executive Director …
A few days after the closing of this year’s Missouri Press Associations’ highly-successful convention, this headline from Editor & Publisher magazine’s website caught my …
Inside a barn in southwest Missouri, Macauley Kincaid operates a massive contraption of wood and metal affixed with pipes, pulleys and wheels.
“This was like state of the art for its time. …
A rainbow of crops fills farmer Abbey Innes’ table at the Columbia Farmers Market: tomatoes, squash, garlic, kale and flower bouquets — all from her and her husband’s 15-acre farm …
Just above and to the right of farmer Thad Becker’s steering wheel in his John Deere combine is a screen about the size of an iPad.
“I've got readouts on yield, current yield and …
